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Advances in biomembranes and lipid self-assembly. Volume 23 / edited by Aleṥ Iglič, Chandrashekhar V. Kulkarni, Michael Rappolt ; founding editors, H.T. Tien, A. Ottova-Leitmannova. -- Cambridge, MA : Academic Press, 2016. – (58.1782/A244/v.23) |
Contents
Contributors
Preface
1. The Importance of Planarity for Lipid
Bilayers as Biomembranes
1. Introduction
2. How CPP Translocates into the Cytosol
3. Pore Formation
4. How Does Curvature Modulation by Changing
Vesicle Size Effect the CPP Translocation?
5. Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
2. Interaction of Cells and Platelets with
Biomaterial Surfaces Treated with Gaseous Plasma
1. Introduction
2. Experimental
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
References
3. Competition Between Electrostatic and Thermodynamic
Casimir Potentials in Near-Critical Mixtures with Ions
1. Introduction
2. Experiments
3. From Microscopic to Mesoscopic
Description
4. Critical Mixture with Inorganic Ions
5. Critical Mixture with Antagonistic Salt
6. Summary
Acknowledgments
References
4. Effect of Dendrimers and Dendriplexes on
Model Lipid Membranes
1. Introduction
2. Carbosilane Dendrimers
3. Phosphorus Dendrimers
4. PAMAM Dendrimers
5. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
References
5. The Membrane Bending Modulus in
Experiments and Simulations: A Puzzling Picture
1. Introduction
2. Experiments
3. Simulations
4. Discussion and Conclusions
References
6. Bicontinuous Phases of Lyotropic Liquid
Crystals
1. Introduction
2. The Model and the Computational Method
2. Cubic Phases of Lyotropic Liquid Crystals
4. The Structure of the Interface Between
the Cubic Phase and the Isotropic Phase
5. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
References
7. Peculiarities in the Study of Preformed
DSPC Lipid Vesicles by Coarse Grain Molecular Dynamics
1. Introduction
2. Methods and Systems
3. Results and Discussion
4. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
References
8. Extracellular Vesicles in Cancer
1. Introduction
2. Heterogeneous Forms of Extracellular
miRNAs
3. Mechanisms of EV Biogenesis, Cargo
Sorting, and Secretion
4. Methods for Isolation of EVs
5. EVs for Discard of Unnecessary miRNAs
6. EVs for Proangiogenesis
7. EVs as Drug Delivery System for RNAi
8. Conclusion and Perspectives
Acknowledgments
References
Index
